I enjoy Humphreys' comments because she is always honest ... no "coach speak" from her. Also, I don't know 1% about volleyball of what she knows so it is interesting to see how my observations compare. All Ivey needs to do with volleyball is to support Humphreys in whatever she wants to make the program better.
SFA head coach Debbie Humphreys on the turning point in the third set | "We executed very well for the first half of the third set and then we just suffered from a lack of discipline. We made a number of uncharacteristic errors and all of those came back and bit us. Then Houston Baptist started playing out of their minds, we stared playing tight and it was just a domino effect. But again, fortunately, in a tight set we found a way to win."
on the style of play necessary to win | "You can't play like you're holding onto something. You have to play like you have something to prove every single night. I think sometimes when you've had the success we've had to this point in the season and you do expect good things we have to remember that the only reason these good things are happening to us is when we just go attack people. We cannot become timid. We cannot become passive. Everybody we're going to play is a good solid team. We have to take care of our business to take our opponents out of what they want to do. We're all NCAA Division I volleyball teams."
on where Xariah Williams would be most effective | "The question was where did we need her? Did we need her more on the right, did we need her more on the left and clearly after the first few sets we needed her on the right. She came in, lit it up and fortunately we didn't have to make a decision of where to put her in the fifth set because there was no fifth set."
on the biggest lesson the team learned | "No matter what the score is, no matter who you're playing, there's a certain style of volleyball we have to stick with and we cannot let up on the discipline side of things."